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Dave Grohl is a fan of bringing up the younger generation right along with him, and for the Foo Fighters frontman, that includes his own daughter as well. Aside from constantly putting a spotlight on 10-year-old percussion genius Nandi Bushell, Grohl recently collaborated with his daughter, Violet, when she sang backup vocals on Foo’s latest album, Medicine At Midnight. After that, the father/daughter duo worked on a cover together of the legendary LA punk band X’s song “Violet,” off their 1980 debut, Los Angeles.

After performing the cover together on Jimmy Kimmel Live! with a whole host of other musicians that included members of Slayer and Nirvana – definitely a supergroup of sorts — Violet has now added another live performance of the song to her growing repertoire. X themselves asked her to come perform it with them during a recent live show at the Greek Theater, bringing her involvement in the tune full circle to say the least.

Though X was very active in earlier decades, the band has been on hiatus for quite some time, and only recently got a new album officially out in the world. Alphabetland picks up where the band left off thirty years ago and offers an exciting new chapter for some California rock icons. Check out their performance with Violet up above, and if you want to read more about the story behind Alphabetland check out their interview with Spin right here.

The best running back in the NFL is adding a new dimension to his game. Derrick Henry and the Tennessee Titans, fresh off of a huge win on Monday Night Football against the Buffalo Bills, played host to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday afternoon. It didn’t take long before they found themselves up thanks to Henry, although he managed to be responsible for points in a way that is a little unusual.

Tennessee opted to go Wildcat on first-and-goal from the 5-yard line, which usually means the team is removing a step and just letting Henry take the ball and mow through a defense. But this time, he did something a little different: After making it look like he was going to attempt to barrel through the Chiefs’ defense, Henry stopped and lobbed the ball to MyCole Pruitt in the back of the end zone for six.

It was a bit of a tough throw because Henry was right in the mixer, but after his three previous passing attempts all failed to generate points — he went 2-for-3 with 14 yards in 2018 and has not attempted a pass since — this one found the end zone. Although if we may quibble, Henry had someone even more open in the top corner of the end zone. Gotta clean that up if you’re gonna make it as a passer and not just be perhaps the best back of your generation, Derrick.

Earlier this month, Brandi Carlile released her seventh album, In These Silent Days. It’s a body of work that the singer created during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. More than a year removed from that time, Carlile brought her talents to Saturday Night Live. During her appearance on the late-night show, she performed “Broken Horses” and “Right On Time” from her new album. This moment on SNL for Carlile was a long-awaited one as it comes nearly two decades into her career.

In These Silent Days is the follow-up to Carlile’s 2018 album, By The Way, I Forgive You. Prior to releasing her seventh full-length release, Carlile shared her feeling about the album once it was complete.

“Never before have the twins [Elton John and Joni Mitchell] and I written an album during a time of such uncertainty and quiet solitude,” she said. “I never imagined that I’d feel so exposed and weird as an artist without the armor of a costume, the thrill of an applause and the platform of the sacred stage.”

In total, In These Silent Days comes complete with ten songs and a single guest feature from Lucius who appears on “You And Me On The Rock.”

You can watch Carlile perform “Broken Horses” and “Right On Time” above.

In These Silent Days is out now via Low Country Sound/Elektra. Get it here.

In a new appearance on CBS Sunday Morning, former president Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen broke down their relationship, and what led to their eventual partnership on a podcast and now a book together. The pair announced their Spotify-exclusive “Renegades: Born In The USA” podcast back in February, and have since let fans know that a book based on those conversations is coming this October.

The book drops this Tuesday, so Barack and Bruce are now taking in part in what most authors know well — the inevitable book tour press blitz. Appearing on CBS Sunday Morning as part of that process, Obama and Springsteen both shared what it felt like to be an “outsider” while they were coming up. “It might be the story of all artists and musicians, that you start from the outside. When I was young, I felt forceless, I felt invisible, but I fought to find out where I belong,” Springsteen said.

Barack, on the other hand, gently poked fun at Springsteen’s concept of feeling like he didn’t belong. “Now I joke with Bruce, because I don’t understand why a kid from New Jersey thinks he’s an outsider,” Obama said. “Now, I’m an outsider. You can definitely understand why Barack Obama is the outsider. What I do think we both shared was that since having questions about how do we fit into the existing narrative, how do we fit into the communities that we’re born into.”

Check out the full appearance above, and pre-order Renegades: Born In The USA right here.

Jason Sudiekis got to return “home” on Saturday to Studio 8H, hosting Saturday Night Live for the first time since he left the show in 2013. The reunion of sorts was certainly exciting for fans, who got to see the actor reprise his role as Joe Biden in the show’s cold open and even help bring back What’s Up With That? later in the program.

All that nostalgia is perhaps why the Ted Lasso star got nostalgic during his cold open, peppering in jokes about how to get Lorne Michaels to notice you (“win an Emmy”) while also

“It’s so neat to be a small part of this show’s amazing history,” Sudeikis said. “A history that was fueled for its first 25 years by cocaine and adrenaline, its next 15 years by Starbucks and unhealthy comparisons and the last six years by Adderall and fear, I’d say.”

Later on, though, Sudeikis pulled a bit of a Ted Lasso when he got sentimental about the studio itself and all the history it holds.

“This place changed my life. Twice,” Sudeikis said after rattling off some of the show’s most famous sketches and musical guests. “Once as a cast member, as a writer here. But most importantly as a kid watching from home. And there’s a good chance if you’re watching tonight there’s probably something from this place that’s changed your life, too.”

Sudeikis joked that his show would be unlikely to be all that life-changing, but the Lasso-like reflection on the show’s impact set up what was a solid night in Studio 8H to say the least. You can watch the full monologue above.

While Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump impression anchored late night TV for years, Saturday Night Live has shuffled through a number of Joe Biden impressions in recent memory. And Jason Sudeikis’ return to the show on Saturday night offered up a chance to poke fun at the many faces of Biden in the cold open of the show’s Halloween episode.

Billed as visits from the ghosts of Biden past, the sketch mostly offered a chance to show the new Biden next to a very familiar one played by Sudeikis. James Austin Johnson’s Biden starts things off by talking with Chloe Fineman’s press secretary Jen Psaki, and both admit things aren’t going very well for his presidency.

Enter 2013 Biden, looking lively and much more enthusiastic than Johnson’s more beaten-down modern Biden. Even Alex Moffat’s Biden showed up, with the other two a bit hazy on which version of Biden he even was. That’s because his turn as the president was brief, of course, and “March 2021” Biden didn’t have much help to offer anyway.

The sketch was a bit of a meta commentary on the show, as for decades Saturday Night Live has impacted the way politicians are viewed by millions of Americans. The perception of Biden as a “care free” uncle certainly stuck because of Sudeikis amplifying those aspects of his personality on screen for years. But as the sketch makes clear, we now live in very different times.

Matt Araiza is the best player in college football you have likely never heard of unless you are a fan of San Diego State or a connoisseur of great punting. The Aztec two-way kicker/punter is one of the greatest special teams weapons in recent college football history, booming punts at an absurd 53 yard average that would be a record if he keeps it up.

On Saturday, he did his part to maintain that monstrous average with this 81 yard bomb against Air Force, taking full advantage of being in the altitude of Colorado Springs to show off his ridiculous leg.

Any time you can make a color commentator like Aaron Taylor gasp out loud on a punt and say “jeez,” you know you’ve done something special. That ball went 75 yards in the air and trundled out to 81 yards, as he pulled off the incredibly rare feat of not outkicking his coverage but outkicking the return man.

He also hit a 51-yard field goal for the Aztecs, because of course he did.

In case you thought that 75 yard carry was a fluke, please enjoy this 66 yard carry punt later in the game.

Or this 86 yard bomb (with some helpful roll) from last week.

So, yeah, San Diego State isn’t the most exciting offensive team in the country, but their games are worth some late night attention because when Araiza steps on the field it is show time.

Klay Thompson has been steadily working his way back from his Achilles injury (suffered after his torn ACL) and is hopeful to return to the Warriors lineup for the first time in two years in January.

In the meantime, he’s been rehabbing, boating, and other Klay-type activities. This week, he’s also been posting a lot to Instagram about his frustrations with the NBA’s 75 Greatest Players list (that was actually 76 names long) after he was not among those who made it, saying he guessed people didn’t care about winning as much as him. Thompson wasn’t at the top of most people’s snubs list — Dwight Howard and Tracy McGrady were, for many, the most egregious exclusions — but his resume is quite impressive and, as is the case with any elite athlete, he thinks highly of his accomplishments and skills.

His Warriors teammates have noticed his gripes and decided to mess with Klay on Saturday, getting him a new jersey with the number 77 in honor of him being just outside the cut line for the top 76. Draymond and Steph found it hilarious, while Klay unsurprisingly played into it and wore it around the facility as he worked out.

Steph’s reaction in particular to seeing it is great, and Klay wearing it with pride is how you’d expect him to take the joke. I don’t think he’s going to make the pivot full-time to No. 77, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we see that jersey out on the boat at some point.

Chris Wallace has long been one of the more freethinking members of Fox News, holding onto his job despite his penchant for asking folks like Donald Trump the tough questions they never get from anyone else at the right-wing network. But recently he may have gone too far. While his colleague Peter Doocy regularly clashes with press secretary Jen Psaki — and more often than not humiliates himself in the process — Wallace has no problem showering her with praise.

On Friday, Psaki and Doocy had a testier-than-usual duel, with the Fox News correspondent grilling her about whether Biden had visited the southern border. Doocy accused him of not doing his job; Psaki said he didn’t need to go down there simply for a “photo op.” It got ugly. But Wallace didn’t see it that way. In fact, he praised both of them.

“Honestly, as somebody who’s spent six years in the White House, my immediate reaction was those are two people at the top of their game,” Wallace said. He singled out Doocy. “I mean this as a compliment. I think he has become the Sam Donaldson of this White House press corps,” jokingly adding, “And since I was working in the press corps when Sam Donaldson was there, that’s a very grudging compliment on my part.”

He then called Psaki “one of the best press secretaries ever.”

Conservatives often bristle at Wallace for daring to question GOP officials as though he was a real journalist. But even when he paired his Psaki praise with adulation for Doocy as well, rightwing pundits still lost their minds. We don’t need to embed tweets from these folks, whose views you don’t need to read. But they were numerous enough to make Wallace’s name go viral. And they were mostly all along the lines of radio host Seb Gorka, who called Wallace a “clown,” and over-tweeter Brigitte Gabriel, who wrote an all-caps “TURN OFF FOX NEWS.”

But Wallace? If he’s lasted this long, he almost certainly doesn’t have to worry about losing his job.

(Via Mediaite)

Phoebe Bridgers is in the middle of a tour behind her excellent 2020 record, Punisher, and played a set of hometown shows in Los Angeles this weekend. If the traffic on Los Feliz Boulevard didn’t alert you that Bridgers was the headliner at the Greek Theater on Thursday and Friday night, then a cryptic tweet from Phoebe herself might’ve been a better clue: “Come early tonight. Trust me,” she wrote, following that up with a tweet of her collaboration with The 1975, “Jesus 2005 God Bless America.”

It seemed pretty clear from those hints that Matty Healy of The 1975 would be showing up as a surprise opener at her second LA show to perform their collaboration, and that’s exactly how things went down last night. Healy also performed a new song called “New York,” 2018’s “Be My Mistake,” and “Sex,” which he introduced as “an emo classic.” If you were lucky enough to be there, thanks for shooting clips so the rest of us could watch the video back! If you weren’t there, the boat I’m in, check out the video of their first live rendition of the tune up top. There’s a few more social clips down below, too. The song is taken from The 1975’s own 2020 album, Notes On A Conditional Form, and probably would’ve been a frequent staple in the setlist if Phoebe and the band had been able to embark on their original tour together. Ah well, at least we got this performance now.